My Outdoor Life by Ray Mears - ISBN: 9781444778212
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Survival, loss, and adventure: Ray Mears’ life revealed at last.

My Outdoor Life

The Sunday Times Bestseller

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  • Paperback

    384 pages

  • Release Date

    8 July 2014

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Summary

Ray Mears is a household name through his television series Tracks, World of Survival, Bushcraft Survival, The Real Heroes of Telemark, and many more. He is a private individual who shuns publicity whenever possible and would prefer to let his many skills tell their own tale—until now.

In MY OUTDOOR LIFE, Ray tells of his childhood and the formative years when he first developed a passion for both bushcraft and the martial arts skills that are centr…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781444778212
ISBN-10:1444778218
Author:Ray Mears
Publisher:Hodder & Stoughton
Imprint:Hodder Paperback
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:384
Release Date:8 July 2014
Weight:284g
Dimensions:197mm x 129mm x 26mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

Moving…gripping…The rather old-fashioned qualities he admires in others: fortitude, understatedness, loyalty, above all stoicism, are the same ones we admire in him. Long may he survive.

Moving…gripping…The rather old-fashioned qualities he admires in others: fortitude, understatedness, loyalty, above all stoicism, are the same ones we admire in him. Long may he survive. - Daily Mail

‘If Ray Mears isn’t a Great Living Englishman, then goodness me, who is Ray is a persuader, pragmatist and populariser in the Durrell-Attenborough-Bellamy tradition.’ - Robert Crampton, The Times - Robert Crampton, The Times

About The Author

Ray Mears

Born in 1964, Ray Mears has travelled the world studying and teaching the art of survival. He has appeared extensively in TV programmes such as Bushcraft Survival, The Real Heroes of Telemark, Wild Food, and Ray Mears Goes Walkabout. As well as his TV and writing work, Ray founded Woodlore, School of Wilderness Bushcraft, in 1983, and has been teaching his unique bushcraft skills there for the past 25 years. In 2003 the Royal Geographical Society honoured him with the Ness Award for the popularisation of geography.

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